Dew Drop – January 1, 2011

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

• Early (aka Alpha Version) of the Dimecasts.net WP7 Application (Derik Whittaker)
• ADO.NET : Some internals uncovered Part 2 (Abhishek Sur)
• Inviting everyone to participate in the .NET Quiz! An Apple iPad Waiting (Jacob Sebastian)
• Individual leadership (Eric Brechner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use Conditional Breakpoints with Method Calling in Visual Studio and Generate Method Stubs using Shortcut Key in Visual Studio and Calling Methods From Watch Window (Abhijit Jana)
• Domain Specific Language using C# 4.0 – Part 3 (M Sheik Uduman Ali)
• Cool LINQ over JSON……….In MonoDroid no less (Wally McClure)
• Server Explorer: Server Management Classes (Zain Naboulsi)
• A .NET Project Base (Grant Palin)
• Dynamically Creating a WinForms Dialog and A Custom Settings Class for WinForms (Jonathan Wood)
• Reactive.buffering.from event. (Andrej Tozon)
• Sphinx – A better way to write your docs (Dru Sellers)
• Automatic Implementation of INotifyPropertyChanged on POCO Objects (Felice Pollano)
• Log4Net Tutorial. Just say no to blindly copying configs… (Greg Duncan)
• Entity Framework Code-First CTP5 (James Vastbinder)
• StyleCop Compliant Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets January 2011 Release (Doug Holland)

Web Development

• Client Side Sorting in ASP.NET Grid View using JQuery (Hima)
• ASP.NET 4.0 – Menu control enhancement (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Typography for WordPress (Luke)
• Layouts And Sections With Razor (Nick Berardi)
• MyStudioServer goes Open Source (Michael Washington)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using CUDA/Thrust with the Parallel Patterns Library (Ade Miller)
• Is TDD Evolving? and Isolator++ 1.1 Released (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Run Unit Tests in Parallel using Visual Studio 2010 (Shai Raiten)
• NServiceBus 2.5 Released (Udi Dahan)
• Radio buttons are great, but… (Josh Twist)
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio, ROI and ROA in Software Development (Jeremy Likness)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What’s it like to develop for Windows Phone 7? (Andrew Long)
• Obfuscating your WP7 applications and Navigating to an external URL using the HyperlinkButton. (Derik Whittaker)
• Mail Me, my first Windows Phone 7 app (Omar Shahine)
• Create Great User Experiences with Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone (Ben Lower)
• Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [1/4] (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 7) and Native Extensions for Silverlight (NESL)? (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone From Scratch – Navigation II (Jesse Liberty)
• Face detection in Windows Phone 7 and Code Coverage for Silverlight and Windows Phone and Drag from Multiple Source In Silverlight 4 and SharpDropBox Client for .NET Windows Phone DropBox and Sterling and The validation story in Silverlight (Part 1) and (Part 2) and Working with the Silverlight Rich Text Box control (Kunal Chowdhury)
• CinchV2 : Latest News (Sacha Barber)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 12 and What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 13 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Fibre Async Library 1.1 Released (Jake Ginnivan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: From Agile Consultant to Agile Team Member with John Wilger (Scott Hanselman)
• Bart De Smet: MinLINQ – The Essence of LINQ (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 382: 2010 end of year wrap-up (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 223 – 12.31.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Silverlight TV 52: Entity Level Validation, Defining MetaData and Nested ComboBoxes with WCF RIA Services (John Papa)
• Let’s Play TDD #74: Number Formatting Spike and Let’s Play TDD #75: Hacking on the Custom TextField (James Shore)

Community / Events

• A Farewell to Typemock and Hire me as your ruby intern for a year (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight-Zone is Live now (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MVP’s Words are Massive in Windows Phone 7 Campaign (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft Class of 2010 (Adam Kinney)
• Open Source Contribution Etiquette (Miguel de Icaza)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – The Introduction and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Substring() Function (Jason Strate)
• Installing Joomla on SQL Server 2008 and SQL Azure (Mitch Pronschinske)
• What I would like changed about Reporting Services. What would you like changed? (Simon Sabin)
• SSMS SQLCMD Mode (David Dye)

Miscellaneous

• The 5 Biggest Interface Screw ups of 2010 (Adam Kochanowicz)
• Windows Cluster Scripting with WMI and PowerShell (Chad Miller)
• Unblocking PowerGUI Add-Ons and PowerShell Modules (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Happy New Year 2011 to all my Followers and their Family (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Part #1 of "You think this is better. Really?" and Part #2 of "You think this is better. Really?" (Michael S. Kaplan)
• How Microsoft Has Embraced Social Media (Richard Hay)
• Technology Predictions for 2011 Part I: The Microsoft Space (Stephen Forte)
• Tech Predictions, 2011 Edition (Ted Neward)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 30, 2010 and Interesting Finds: December 31, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 12.24 ~ 12.31 (yuanjian)
• Links to my “Best of 2010” Posts (Scott Guthrie)
• The Morning Brew #761 (Chris Alcock)
• Distributed Weekly 83 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 30 , 2010 and Interesting .NET Links – December 31 , 2010 and Interesting .NET Links – January 1 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2010 — #1019 (Dave Campbell)
• Week Retrospective 13 – The End of 2010 – Popular Posts (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action by Phil Wicklund